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reply posted on 9-10-2003 @ 02:53 PM by kukla
I'm still at a loss as to what this could mean for the agenda. Maybe this is a way to free Rummy up to start looking at another theatre? (i.e. Syria, Iran, NK..)

I caught him on CSPAN last week and he was PISSED and very animated. More so then I've ever seen him. Then the FT Times interview is more telling than any of his previous interviews combined. And now it seems the WH is downplaying the tift.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Wednesday sought to paper over any differences with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who complained he was not told of a postwar Iraq reorganizational shake-up.

Rumsfeld's annoyance at the White House emerged during an interview he gave to London's Financial Times newspaper, a rare display of public pique within President Bush's famously disciplined inner circle....

But the move was perceived in Washington as giving the State Department a greater say in postwar reconstruction in Iraq. State Department officials have felt sidelined from what would normally be an effort they would lead.

"What it means is that, at least in the policy formulation stage, other agencies are going to have a bigger voice than they had up to this point," said Ivo Daalder, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution think tank. "And in that sense, by definition you're seeing a diminution of Rumsfeld's ability to control that process."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan singled out a portion of Rumsfeld's remarks to the Financial Times, that the defense secretary said the NSC's job is to coordinate policy, to suggest there was no difference between the White House and Rumsfeld.

"I looked at what he said, and it's right in line with what we said," he added.

McClellan had said Monday that Rumsfeld had been consulted and approved of the shake-up in advance, but he said on Wednesday: "Maybe I should not have characterized it that way."


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